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by rerdavies 4y ago
Seems disappointingly innocuous to me. https://www.pcgamer.com/the-eight-ugliest-pc-gaming-cases-we...
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by rerdavies 4y ago
How do you return data?
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Zip-lock bags (even the heavy-duty zip-lock map bags) don't cut it. If you get even a trace of moisture or condensation in the bag, it evaporates and re-condenses causing a disproportionate amounts of smearing. The problem I foresee wi
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by rerdavies 4y ago
We got called into school by our son's English teacher. During the poetry module, my son had gotten a bit frustrated and said, "Who the heck is ever going to use fucking poetry in real life?" "While I felt he had raised
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Hall passes aren't about socialization; they're about dominance, submission, and domestication. And I can't honestly think of a purpose that they legitimately serve. It's just not that hard to tell the difference between
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Speaking of huge cultural variation... an experience I had working with Russian contractors: they didn't realize that we disagreed with their plan because we hadn't yelled at them. No idea whether that's a general Russian cul
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by rerdavies 4y ago
My first thought was to scramble to see if Canada had any plans to stop printing the Canadian National Topographic System map series (not nautical maps, but topographic maps that cover the entire landmass of Canada). For wilderness canoeist
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by rerdavies 4y ago
I'd guess that 50% of my google searches have 'wiki' in them. Thanks for the tip about adding 'reddit'.
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by rerdavies 4y ago
> What is the weight of 1 kilogram of nails? Correct answer: Depends on your current acceleration and/or the current force of gravity, puny human. :-P
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Just ask for links. The example below is contrived. But when you're looking for very specific information, GptChat can save you from wading through pages of Google Search results. Providing a list of 30,000 pages that are only tangenti
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Just like C, there is a stark beauty to the original K&R C Programming Language book. And there's an admirable clarity in the writing that has set the standard for all language manuals that have followed. It is, indeed, a terrific
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Agree with all those who have raised the issue of problems with aliasing. Just to flush things out, it's worth mentioning what effect aliasing has on the quality of the audio output. Nobody seems to have address that issue yet. Aliasin
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by rerdavies 4y ago
If people started doing it only to get hired, it would no longer be a good interview question.
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Do you not play? That sounds to me like a reason not to hire you. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of professional programmers play. I would guess almost all of them. Would I expect anyone to do the sort of play I do? Def
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Play doesn't have to be useless. It just has to be inefficient. Efficiency in this case would be to just go and buy an $1800 guitar pedal instead of investing $40,000 worth of personal development time on a toy project for the sheer jo
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by rerdavies 4y ago
I have always used play projects as opportunities for professional development: learn a new language or UI framework, try out a programming paradigm, explore audio programming, &c. But always because I love what I do. And I frequently a
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Tritium has a half-life of 12 years so there is no deep pool of tritium upon which to draw. The primary source of tritium on earth is cosmic-ray interactions in the upper atmosphere that produces 7.5Kg of tritium a year worldwide.[1] Isn&#x
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Good coding culture is a living and constantly evolving thing. Code reviews will get you through the start of your career. But as an intermediate software developer, you should be reading and considering new paradigms and practices in relat
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by rerdavies 4y ago
WordPerfect Syndrome. People who have been scarred by the experience of learning a nightmare product are reluctant to move on to more capable tools that are much easier to learn.
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by rerdavies 4y ago
ninja'd by jxramos Another interesting model that avoids user-interface bloat is installable extensions. For example, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Instead of making EVERY feature accessible via menu, right-click-menu, and rib
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by rerdavies 4y ago
... all of which seem like motivation for writing better. Keep on posting!
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Terrible idea. Why would you want multiple mechanisms for handling error conditions?
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by rerdavies 4y ago
Just part of a vast trove of mathematics for audio, by Julius O. Smith III: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sitemap.html